The Gedney collection spans the 1940s through 1989, and his photos from O’Rourke’s Bar in Brooklyn circa 1960 are quite memorable. “Gedney recorded the lives of others with remarkable clarity and poignancy. These photographs, along with his notebooks and writings, illuminate the vision of an intensely private man who, as a writer and photographer, revealed the lives of others with striking sensitivity.” O’Rourke’s rollicking neighborhood atmosphere and its characters are center stage at the New York nightspot.